Language Learning and Teaching in Missionary and Colonial Contexts : : L'apprentissage et l'enseignement des langues en contextes missionnaire et colonial / / ed. by Valérie Spaëth, Thi Kieu Ly Pham, Dan Savatovsky, Mariangela Albano.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Abouelgamal, Tarek,; Albano, Mariangela,; Aliffi, Maria Lucia,; Avenne, Cécile Van Den,; Cowan, Steven,; Errington, Joseph,; Facchin, Andrea,; Jin, Tinghe,; Kak, Manar El,; Mattarucco, Giada,; Pantéloglou, Lélia,; Phạm, Thị Kiều Ly,; Poli, Diego,; Romanelli, Norma,; Savatovsky, Dan,; Siebetcheu, Raymond,; Spaëth, Valérie,; Villalba, Alejandro Díaz,; Zwartjes, Otto,
• HerausgeberIn: Albano, Mariangela,; Pham, Thi Kieu Ly,; Savatovsky, Dan,; Spaëth, Valérie,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Languages and culture in history ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)

This volume assembles texts dedicated to the linguistic and educational aspects of missionary and colonial enterprises, taking into account all continents and with an extended diachronic perspective (15th–20th centuries). Strictly speaking, this “linguistics” is contemporary to the colonial era, so it is primarily the work of missionaries of Catholic orders and Protestant societies. It can also belong to a retrospective outlook, following decolonization. In the first category, one mostly finds transcription, translation, and grammatization practices (typically, the production of dictionaries and grammar books). In the second category, one finds in addition descriptions of language use, of situations of diglossia, and of contact between languages. Within this framework, the volume focuses on educational and linguistic policies, language teaching and learning, and the didactics that were associated with them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction : Language teaching and grammatization in the colonial empires -- I Iberian Mission Lands -- 1 Toward a historiography of foreign language documentation , teaching and learning of non-Western languages in a missionary context (16th–18th centuries) -- 2 A contribution to the history of missionary grammars and Romance languages grammars: The commensurability of metalanguage and categories in the sixteenth century -- II The Sinic World -- 3 Learning a language while making it up. Matteo Ricci’s ways of inculturation and the communicative strategy of the Company of Jesus -- 4 For an epistemological and cognitive approach to Matteo Ricci’s The Palace of Memory. Didactics and imaginative processes -- 5 The role of British missionary scholars in setting the foundations for the academic study of Chinese in British universities -- III West Africa -- 6 Language policy within the French colonial army : The First World War and beyond -- 7 The “civilization-language-culture” relationship in reading books for teaching in French to allophone schoolchildren (1885–1930): A window opened to the past -- IV East Africa -- 8 From teaching non-Arabs Arabic to Arabization in 1950s Sudan -- 9 Italian colonial educational policy in the Horn of Africa -- V Middle East -- 10 How to create a language by describing it? Orientalists and pure colloquial Arabic -- 11 Politique d’enseignement au Liban au début du Mandat français : les manuels scolaires en français et la place de l’arabe au Collège de Beyrouth -- VI Southeast Asia -- 12 The Romanized writing of Vietnamese: A unique case in the Far East -- 13 On Indonesian and English as lingua francas: Colonial, national, global -- VII Europe -- 14 Un empire culturel et littéraire : quelques grammaires de l’italien langue étrangère (seizième–dixseptième siècle) -- 15 “A language that reigns in the city” : Italian in grammar books for foreigners (second half of the 18th century) -- 16 L’enseignement du grec moderne comme langue étrangère : des missionnaires catholiques aux grammairiens philhellènes -- List of abbreviations (Index) -- Index of names -- Index of languages and script names